Improvement in stock for bracelets



0. DOWNS. Stock for Bracelets, 8L0.

No. 217,453. Patented July 15, 1879.

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WITNESSES. INVENTUR'.

N. PEI'ERs, PHoTauiHoGmPHER, WASHINGTON 0 C4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES DOWNS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND,

,IMPROV EMENT IN STOCK FOR BRACELETS, 800.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,453, dated July 15, 1879; application filed June 12, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES DOWNS, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Stock for Bracelets, 800.; and

nate series by embossing a strip of sheet metal of a desirable thickness and width so as to produce the required effect.

Ornamental chains composed of links which are connected together in alternate series by transverse pins or a continuous wire have been. used heretofore inthe manufacture of bracelets, &c.; but as far as I am aware no stock for this purpose has yet been made of a single thickness of sheet metal and embossed to imitate a chain so composed.

The object, therefore, of my invention is to produce from a strip of sheet metal an efiect similar to a chain composed as above de-. scribed, so that when the stock is formed into a bracelet or other article, said bracelet or other article-will resemble one composed of links.

Reterring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents a portion of a plain strip of-sheet metal. Fig. 2 shows the same embossed to imitate a chain, and Fig. 3 represents a bracelet composed of this embossed sheet metal.

To produce my improved stock for bracelets, &c., a strip of sheet metal, as in Fig. 1, of the desired thickness and width, and preferably of great length, is passed between rolls which have been cut to indent and raise the surface of the metal and produce the desired size, shape, and combination of links-such,

an encircling-band, to confine the free end in position while being worn, and the bracelet is complete.

The stock may also be used for other articles of jewelry, such as scarf-rings, hair-bands, 850., and is useful for various ornamental pur poses.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. As a new manufacture, stock for brace-- lets, &c., which is composed of a single thickness of sheet metal embossed to represent a chain formed of alternating series of links, substantially as herein set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a brace let composed of a. single thickness of 'sheet metal embossed to represent a chain formed of alternating series of links, substantially as described and shown.

CHAS. DOWNS. Witnesses:

EnsoN SALISBURY J ONES, WM. A. CADY. 

